Othmar Gau
Transportation Management with SAP LES
Bonn Boston
Contents at a Glance
1 Introduction ......................................................................... 17
2 Organizational Structures in Logistics ................................ 23
3 Master Data ......................................................................... 43
4 Documents ........................................................................... 63
5 Delivery Documents ............................................................. 103
6 Other Functions in Delivery Documents ............................. 177
7 Picking ................................................................................. 235
8 Packing ................................................................................ 281
9 Dangerous Goods Management .......................................... 317
10 Shipping Papers and Documents ......................................... 347
11 Status Tracking .................................................................... 369
12 Shipment .............................................................................. 383
13 Other Shipment Functions .................................................. 431
14 Shipment Status .................................................................. 491
15 Transport Papers and Documents ........................................ 503
16 EDI and IDocs ...................................................................... 513
17 Goods Issue ......................................................................... 527
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1 Introduction ................................................................................ 17
2 Organizational Structures in Logistics ........................................ 23
2.1 Logistic Organizational Structures ................................................. 232.1.1 Client .............................................................................. 252.1.2 Company Code ................................................................ 252.1.3 Plant ............................................................................... 262.1.4 Storage Location ............................................................. 282.1.5 Shipping Point ................................................................. 292.1.6 Loading Point .................................................................. 312.1.7 Transportation Planning Point .......................................... 32
2.2 Warehouse-Related Organizational Structures .............................. 332.2.1 Warehouse Number ........................................................ 342.2.2 Storage Type ................................................................... 342.2.3 Storage Section ............................................................... 352.2.4 Storage Bin ...................................................................... 362.2.5 Storage Unit .................................................................... 36
2.3 Organizational Structures in Sales ................................................. 372.3.1 Sales Organization ........................................................... 382.3.2 Distribution Channel ....................................................... 392.3.3 Division ........................................................................... 402.3.4 Sales Offi ce ..................................................................... 412.3.5 Sales Group ..................................................................... 42
2.4 Summary ...................................................................................... 42
3 Master Data ................................................................................ 43
3.1 Material Master Data ................................................................... 433.1.1 Basic Data in the Material Master .................................... 443.1.2 Sales Data ....................................................................... 483.1.3 Plant and Storage Location Data ...................................... 49
3.2 Customer Master Data ................................................................. 50
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3.2.1 General Data ................................................................... 533.2.2 Sales Area Data ............................................................... 543.2.3 Additional Data ............................................................... 55
3.3 Vendor Master File ....................................................................... 563.4 Batch Master Data ....................................................................... 573.5 Dangerous Goods Master Data ..................................................... 593.6 Summary ...................................................................................... 61
4 Documents .................................................................................. 63
4.1 Sales Orders ................................................................................. 644.1.1 Structure of a Sales Order ................................................ 644.1.2 Standard Order ............................................................... 744.1.3 Third-Party Order ............................................................ 824.1.4 Consignment Processing .................................................. 854.1.5 Returns Order ................................................................. 894.1.6 Free-of-Charge Delivery and Subsequent Delivery ........... 91
4.2 Purchase Orders ........................................................................... 924.2.1 Stock Transport Order ..................................................... 944.2.2 Cross-Company-Code Stock Transport Order ................. 100
4.3 Summary .................................................................................... 101
5 Delivery Documents .................................................................. 103
5.1 Task and Structure of the Delivery Document ............................. 1045.2 Delivery Types and Item Categories ............................................ 1075.3 Creating Deliveries ..................................................................... 115
5.3.1 Creating an Individual Delivery Document ..................... 1165.3.2 Creating Delivery Documents in a Collective Run .......... 1225.3.3 Creating Delivery Documents in a Batch ........................ 134
5.4 Copy Control .............................................................................. 1385.5 Shipping Point ............................................................................ 142
5.5.1 Shipping Conditions ...................................................... 1445.5.2 Loading Groups ............................................................. 1455.5.3 Delivering Plant ............................................................. 1465.5.4 Storage Location ........................................................... 1485.5.5 Example of Shipping Point Determination ..................... 148
5.6 Routes ........................................................................................ 149
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5.6.1 Transportation Zones ..................................................... 1515.6.2 Transport Group ............................................................ 1525.6.3 Weight Group ............................................................... 1535.6.4 Route Defi nition ............................................................ 1545.6.5 Route Determination ..................................................... 156
5.7 Goods Receiving Points .............................................................. 1595.8 Availability Check ....................................................................... 162
5.8.1 Basic Principles of the Availability Check ....................... 1625.8.2 Types of Availability Check ............................................ 1635.8.3 Time of the Availability Check ....................................... 1655.8.4 Transfer of Requirements ............................................... 1665.8.5 Sample ATP Availability Checks ..................................... 167
5.9 Delivery Combination, Delivery Split .......................................... 1715.9.1 Delivery Combination .................................................... 1725.9.2 Delivery Split ................................................................. 173
5.10 Summary .................................................................................... 175
6 Other Functions in Delivery Documents ................................... 177
6.1 Scheduling ................................................................................. 1786.1.1 Delivery Scheduling ....................................................... 1806.1.2 Transportation Scheduling ............................................. 1826.1.3 Example ........................................................................ 183
6.2 Incompletion Check ................................................................... 1856.2.1 Incompletion Status Group ............................................ 1856.2.2 Incompletion Procedure ................................................ 1876.2.3 Processing Incomplete Delivery Documents .................. 189
6.3 Partner Determination ..................................
